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TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 1 , 2, 3. 1841.
June 14, 1841.
Preamble.
Presiding offi-cers’ chairs tobe shrouded inblack.
Usual badgeof mourning tobe worn.
RESOLUTIONS.
No. 1. A Resolution manifesting the sensibility of Congress upon the event of thedeath of William Henry Harrison, late President of the United States .
The melancholy event of the death of William Henry Harrison , the latePresident of the United States , having occurred during the recess ofCongress , and the two Houses sharing in the general grief and desir-ing to manifest their sensibility upon the occasion of that public be-reavement, therefore
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the chairs of the Presi-dent of the Senate and of the Speaker of the House of Representatives beshrouded in black during the residue of the session; and that the Presi-dent pro tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Repre-sentatives , and the members and officers of both Houses, wear the usualbadge of mourning for thirty days.
Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested totransmit a copy of these resolutions to Mrs. Harrison, and to assure herof the profound respect of the two Houses of Congress for her personand character, and of their sincere condolence on the late afflictingdispensation of Providence.
Approved, June 14, 1841.
Aug. 25,1841.
Sec. Treasurymay changelight-boat sta-tions, &c.
Sept. 1,1841.
Commiss’r ofPatents to senda certain num-ber of copies toeach state andterritory.
No. 2. Jl Resolution relating to the light-hoats now stationed at Sandy Hook and
Bartlett's Reef.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of theTreasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, if upon full inquiry he deemit expedient, to cause the light-boat now stationed at Sandy Hook to beremoved, and to be placed near Bartlett’s reef, in Long Island Sound ;and whenever the same shall be so removed and placed, to cause thelight-boat now at Bartlett’s reef to be removed, and placed, if he deemit expedient, near Execution Rocks, in Long Island Sound , with a bellonly for the latter vessel, to be so fixed as to be rung by the motion ofthe sea.
Approved, August 25, 1841.
No. 3. A Resolution for the distribution of seven hundred copies of the Digest of
Patents.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner ofPatents be directed to send to the Secretary of State of each of theStates of this Union, and of the Territories of Florida, Wisconsin , andIowa , the Digest of Patents published by the Commissioner of Patents,under the act of Congress , dated March third, one thousand eight hun-dred and thirty-nine; to be disposed of as the Legislatures of each Stateand Territory may direct, viz : To the State of Maine twenty copies.To the State of New Hampshire ten copies. To the State of Massa-chusetts thirty copies. To the State of Rhode Island four copies. Tothe State of Connecticut twelve copies. To the State of Vermont eleven copies. To the State of New York ninety-eight copies. To theState of New Jersey fifteen copies. To the State of Pennsylvania sixty-nine copies, To the State of Delaware four copies. To the State ofMaryland nineteen copies. To the State of Virginia fifty copies. Tothe State of North Carolina thirty-nine copies. To the State of SouthCarolina twenty-four copies. To the State of Georgia twenty-eight co-pies. To the State of Kentucky thirty-one copies. To the State of